An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5905-01-198-6951
NSN 6320-01-015-9856
NSN 6650-00-831-5532
NSN 5950-01-016-5819
NSN 5935-01-207-0938
NSN 5855-00-560-0110
NSN 5925-01-226-9493
NSN 6650-01-609-8848
NSN 5915-01-175-8328
NSN 5915-01-428-9343
NSN 6650-00-754-2276
NSN 6110-00-660-8998